Leviticus 2:13

2:13 Moreover, you must season every one of your grain offerings with salt; you must not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be missing from your grain offering ¹  – on every one of your grain offerings you must present salt.

Leviticus 2:2

2:2 Then he must bring it to the sons of Aaron, the priests, and the priest ²  must scoop out from there a handful of its choice wheat flour and some of its olive oil in addition to all of its frankincense, and the priest must offer its memorial portion ³  up in smoke on the altar – it is ⁴  a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord.

Leviticus 13:5

13:5 The priest must then examine it on the seventh day, and if, ⁵  as far as he can see, the infection has stayed the same ⁶  and has not spread on the skin, ⁷  then the priest is to quarantine the person for another seven days. ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “from upon your grain offering.”

² tn Heb “and he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. The syntax is strange here and might suggest that it was the offerer who scooped out a handful of the grain offering for the memorial portion (G. J. Wenham, Leviticus [NICOT], 66), but based on v. 9 below it should be understood that it was the priest who performed this act (see, e.g., NRSV “After taking from it a handful of the choice flour and oil…the priest shall…”; see also J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:177, 181 and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 30).

³ sn The “memorial portion” (אַזְכָרָה, ’azkharah) was the part of the grain offering that was burnt on the altar (see the previous clause), as opposed to the remainder, which was normally consumed by the priests (v. 3; see the full regulations in Lev 6:14-23[7-16]). It was probably intended to call to mind (i.e., memorialize) before the Lord the reason for the presentation of the particular offering (see the remarks in R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 1:335-39).

⁴ tn The words “it is” have been supplied. See the notes on Lev 1:9 and 2:3. There is no text critical problem here, but the syntax suggests the same translation.

⁵ tn Heb “and behold” (so KJV, ASV).

⁶ tn Heb “the infection has stood in his eyes”; ASV “if in his eyes the plague be at a stay.”

⁷ tn Although there is no expressed “and” at the beginning of this clause, there is in the corresponding clause of v. 6, so it should be assumed here as well.

⁸ tn Heb “a second seven days.”